During the visit to Armenia (January 21-23, 2008) the Head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service Mr. O. Markov signed an Agreement on cooperation in the sphere of combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism with the Head of the Financial Monitoring Centre of Armenia Mr. D. Azatyan.
The Agreement based on the Egmont Group principles provides for the information exchange between the financial intelligence units of the two states on operations with monetary funds or other assets, which are suspected to be illegal.
The conclusion of this Agreement ensures not only the basis for full-fledged interagency cooperation and interaction, but also allows to improve efficiency of the system of control over cross-border cash transfers for the purpose of revelation and combating legalization of proceeds from crime.
Besides, in the framework of the visit the Head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service Mr. Markov held bilateral meetings with the Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Mr. Sarkisyan, Deputy Prosecutor General of Armenia Mr. Dzhangiryan, as well as with the members of the Interagency committee on combating legalization of proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism of Armenia, the members of which are the management of all the law enforcement bodies of Armenia.
The entered engagements on joint work both on the reciprocal basis and in the framework of the Eurasian Group on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism, including development of typology methods and techniques used for money laundering, as well as identification of the best methods of combating it, create a good basis for further fruitful cooperation of two states in the field in question.
On January 24, 2008 in the framework of the visit a seminar for the staff of law enforcement bodies of Armenia will be organized by the International Training and Methodology Center for Financial Monitoring, the founder of which is Rosfinmonitoring. At the seminar the officers of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation will report on the international anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing standards and on the peculiarities of Rosfinmonitoring’s activity in this sphere.
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